22 ideas
192 | Only one thing can be contrary to something [Plato] |
190 | If asked whether justice itself is just or unjust, you would have to say that it is just [Plato] |
20184 | The only real evil is loss of knowledge [Plato] |
20185 | The most important things in life are wisdom and knowledge [Plato] |
19419 | Not all of perception is accompanied by consciousness [Leibniz] |
191 | Everything resembles everything else up to a point [Plato] |
19421 | Souls act as if there were no bodies, and bodies act as if there were no souls [Leibniz] |
203 | Courage is knowing what should or shouldn't be feared [Plato] |
19420 | Death and generation are just transformations of an animal, augmented or diminished [Leibniz] |
202 | No one willingly and knowingly embraces evil [Plato] |
193 | Some things are good even though they are not beneficial to men [Plato] |
197 | Some pleasures are not good, and some pains are not evil [Plato] |
200 | People tend only to disapprove of pleasure if it leads to pain, or prevents future pleasure [Plato] |
189 | If we punish wrong-doers, it shows that we believe virtue can be taught [Plato] |
204 | Socrates is contradicting himself in claiming virtue can't be taught, but that it is knowledge [Plato] |
188 | Socrates did not believe that virtue could be taught [Plato] |
19416 | Not all of matter is animated, any more than a pond full of living fish is animated [Leibniz] |
19422 | Every particle of matter contains organic bodies [Leibniz] |
9111 | God is not wise, but more-than-wise; God is not good, but more-than-good [William of Ockham] |
19418 | Mechanics shows that all motion originates in other motion, so there is a Prime Mover [Leibniz] |
19417 | All substances are in harmony, even though separate, so they must have one divine cause [Leibniz] |
9112 | We could never form a concept of God's wisdom if we couldn't abstract it from creatures [William of Ockham] |